Discover Movies

"Pain of Silence" thoughtfully captures the struggles of five traditional Thai artists whose existence has been further threatened by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dear Kin follows nine Alaska Native LGBTQIA2S+ individuals and families who share a letter to past, present, and future Indigenous queer relatives. This is Neech Yanagut Yéil. The full video series is accompanied by photographic portraits.

The Message is a short documentary........ the documentary discusses a verse given to mankind more than 2,000 years ago in the Oral Bible....... the verse would not have been applicable 2000 years at that time and nobody would have understood it......however is applicable to mankind today.

The film follows Bill’s adventures as a child of a bank robber, raised in a gilded household, who turned his back on American devotion to materialism and went off to live in monasteries and mountains in Taiwan. He pursued a fascination with Buddhism and poetry and traveled to remote regions of China to rediscover an ancient tradition of mountain hermits vital to Chinese culture.

The story of James Wickham, who reportedly brought whales to Great Salt Lake in the 1870s. As the debate around the legend's truth unfolds, the film highlights the importance of preserving the dying lake for the sake of both legends and the environment.

Georgswerder is a small "underdeveloped" district in Hamburg, Germany. This film follows four residents to explore the problems and potentials of the neighborhood - and uses hybrid animation to make their visions come to life. This is a commissioned work by Studio Ranokel for "Q8". Q8 does social work in the context of neighborhood development. The film portrays Georgswerder and its challenges in order to make it more visible in general AND specifically for Q8 to have something to show to potential partners that might not be very familiar with Georgswerder.

Serbian high school graduates get together, 30 years later, in their former Belgrade classroom. They finished school in 1989. It was the year of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and their horizons seemed wide open towards Europe and the world. But instead, the Yugoslav wars broke out.

Wed Al-Asadi, having fled the civil war in Iraq, applies for asylum in Finland. Although his lawyer is confident that he will receive a residence permit, his request is rejected.

Velma Norman Hill, married more than 60 years, recount their experience braving mob violence at the height of the civil rights movement.

Along the railroad tracks in Halle-Trotha, where city and countryside merge, people live on the outskirts of the city. Far away from the urban center, they spend their everyday lives between factories and ruins, supermarkets and wild nature. While Wolfgang is stranded on the river with his boat and has found a new home here, Wilma and Eberhard Schneider have lived on the outskirts of the city since childhood. A few houses away, a Buddhist meditates in a converted factory building. Sometimes the smell of the dog food factory is in the air and the clattering of the horse-drawn carriage echoes through the streets. "Stadtrand" tells of a place that is rarely noticed and yet everyone knows it.

The end of the 1970s. The Soviet Union is in a state of stagnation and apathy during the Brezhnev era. Ethnic and social tensions are simmering. An armed group of young people appears in Latvia, wanting to fight Soviet rule using guerrilla tactics. They blow up railways, carry out armed attacks, and intimidate KGB informants. The most daring plan of the young people is to track down and kidnap Augusts Voss, the leader of the Communist Party of the Latvian SSR at the time. The USSR State Security Committee called them the Zilberts gang. How should we evaluate the activities of a group whose actions, both then and now, can be considered criminal offenses? Bandits or partisans? This case goes beyond the bounds of conformity and nonviolent resistance, which is precisely why we decided to tell its story.

Follows a group of recovering addicts working at Troublesome Creek Stringed Instrument Co. in Hindman, Kentucky.

A 45 minute documentary about the long running dislike between the two most famous cricketing men called Ian.

Deep in the mountains of Montana and Idaho a diverse group of Southeast Asian refugees, Latino immigrants, and rural white Americans search for rare fungi. Despite the sustainability of the harvest, the workers who supply these mushrooms are repeatedly denied access to public lands. UP ON THE MOUNTAIN exposes the inequities present in US National Forests through the compelling stories of the mostly unseen people harvesting its most elusive crop.

The Brokes are a note-for-note tribute to the Strokes formed in 2022 by five mainstays of the Toronto music world. After what was to be a one-off Halloween show, demand for more was made clear and has only grown with a perfect track record of sell-out Toronto performances.

They are engineers, hairdressers, communications managers, students or headmasters. Like them, hundreds of thousands of people are affected by burnout syndrome every year in France and around the world. Thousands of men and women of all ages who have suddenly collapsed, unable to move forward. In the absence of a precise diagnosis, this invisible and insidious disease slowly eats away at those who suffer from it without knowing it. So why is burn-out not recognized as an illness by the WHO? How can you spot the symptoms before it's too late? What are the warning signs? And what tools do we have to deal with it? In Europe and North America, initiatives are being put in place to prevent the onset of the disease and measure its cost to society. In France, structures are being set up to care for victims and reintegrate them into society. However, there still seems to be a long way to go before mental health in the workplace becomes a priority in today's world.

Veteran war reporter John Sweeney and Byline TV filmmaker Caolan Robertson hit the road with war photographer Paul Conroy and journalist Zarina Zabrisky to gather compelling evidence for the use of illegal weapons and the torture of civilians in Ukraine, as well as examining the reality of life and conditions faced by ordinary people on Ukraine's eastern front.

It is a documentary film that depicts a deep, empowering, and emotional bond between a sister and her brother who suffers from developmental disabilities and ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease).

Eurovision aka the Gay World Cup. A poetic documentary about Eurovision Song Contest fans. The film hears the intimate testimonies of what the contest means to them.

“I Am Because You Are”” follows the journey of six women of colour as they embark on their first mountaineering trip in the beautiful and rugged Bugaboos. The plan was for a summer trip with the opportunity to learn foundational mountain skills from their guides, but up until the last minute the trip was almost cancelled due to historic levels of spring snow. Despite the group having mixed levels of experience with backpacking or camping in snow, the crew decides to come together, pack their bags and take on the adventure with trust in their guides.

In 2016, the Barcelona City Council allocated plots of land to cooperative housing projects. One of these plots of land was assigned to Sostre Cívic, to be used for 27 units of social housing in the Roquetes neighbourhood of Barcelona. The driving group, Cirerers, was set up in September, 2017. The documentary gaze accompanies the members of the cooperative in their debate about access to decent housing in Barcelona’s neighbourhoods, which are becoming more and more gentrified, the value of communal space and the need to return to taking care of the community as a way to combat the financialization of life. In March, 2022, Cirerers was inhabited by 32, co-living units.

Cue the Strings - a film about Low follows the entire career of the iconic band Low and their relationship with director Philip Harder. Low and Harder made music videos and short films together, filming on ice, in railroad yards, and in rapidly disintegrating rooms. Low formed in 1993. Before the band’s debut record, Harder, armed with a 16mm camera, filmed the band on Lake Superior in minus-30 windchill. At the time Low bucked rock protocol by turning their volume down and the haunting visuals helped define their minimalist approach. As Low matured they turned up and the lyrics grew more aggressive. The visuals followed suit. Year after year Harder continued to film Low’s music until the band’s last show in September 2022.

Tom of Finland (1920–1991) is arguably the world's most influential creator of queer-erotic art. Pioneer of homoerotic iconography in the previous century (both in the years of prohibition and in the era of acceptance and liberation), he contributed to decriminalization and shaping the identity and aesthetics of an entire movement. TOM House – The VR Experience welcomes visitors into the legendary Los Angeles residence of Tom. This immersive experience features three thematic documentary tours in the house, and a virtual art gallery which presents Tom’s work like never experienced before.

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the last standing of the Ancient World’s Seven Wonders, but the Egyptians built over a hundred pyramids. Among them, seven particularly stand out. Pyramids capture the great power beheld by pharaohs, both on a political and on a spiritual scale. Researchers are still fascinated by the ancient, advanced techniques developed by this lost civilization.

In October of 2023, Two amateur filmmakers disappeared in search of dark web personality "WETBOXX".

A documentary film about mining in saxony

An experimental film where a group of mice (voiced by members of the UK polyamorous community who's identities are masked using puppetry) discuss their experiences of polyamory. Diomysus asks the question - are we (the audience) more open to taboo ideas if unconscious bias is eliminated?

Federico Marretta's dream, 26000 km from Italy to Mongolia riding his motorcycle, where stories of different people, cultures and religions merged along the Silk Road. To discover himself, open his heart to other cultures and help people through volleyball.

Collard Hill, on the Polden Hills in Somerset, is a publicly accessible location where the Large Blue butterfly has been successfully reintroduced. Over a series of visits, the filmmakers acquainted themselves with this idyllic place, taking time to understand just how much conservation and human intervention is needed to reintroduce a butterfly.

Murdered attorney, activist, and scholar, 34-year-old Alberta Odell Jones, burned brightly as the nation's first African American woman sports lawyer, negotiating Muhammad Ali's first boxing contract. She later became Louisville-Jefferson County's first female prosecutor and tireless voting rights advocate before her brutal, unsolved murder in 1965.

A series of artistic black-and-white films featuring the English band The 1975.

Nine years after Brazil's Independence, popular protests force Emperor Dom Pedro I to hastily flee the country. The ghosts of Imperial Brazil project themselves into today's Brazil on the traditional Quitanda's street, in Rio de Janeiro.

Victoria, a film student, has been raised in the Catholic religion all her life, which has been part of her identity. Now that she has grown up, she is afraid of doubts that wobbling her beliefs. That is why, she makes this documentary to face the stigmas about herself and her spirituality.

Julian has agreed to help Henry make his first film--but, on the day of shooting, Julian shows up having taken four tabs of LSD. Across the streets of Toronto, the two friends battle for control of the frame and struggle towards the meanings of art and communication.

The film crew travels on a train in a reserved seat across Russia, talking with passengers about the war. The main characters are guys of military age, ordinary Russians, without savings and the opportunity to leave the country. They are against war and are not afraid to talk about it and, moreover, they are not afraid to fight for their rights even where it seems that this is impossible. Bad and good Russians. Who are they and what do they look like? Did all the good people really leave Russia, or is there still someone left there?

In May of 2022 on the James Taylor Justice Coalition's second Justice Day event, participants collected a sample of soil from the site where Mr. Taylor was hanged. With money raised from individuals and organizations in our community a busload of over 50 youth and adults left Chestertown, MD in the wee hours of August 25 to transport the soil sample to the Legacy Museum in Montgomery. The trip included visits to important civil rights sites in Birmingham, Selma, Montgomery and Atlanta. Participants were confronted with a reality not often taught or talked about, and subsequently witnessed, processed, and transformed their perspectives on both Black History in the USA of the past, and the African American Experience of today. Get on the Bus is a film about this trip.

An exhibition by Khavn feat. Babel Gun.

Documentary short film about Juan Lillo, a newspaper vendor in the city of Valparaíso.

Deciding to get married is not an easy thing. Moreover, married to Sukarno. Fatmawati had to face various challenges and obstacles, including political, economic and war crises hit Indonesia.

How famous department store Selfridges celebrates the festive season. We discover the secrets behind the famous Christmas windows and unveil this year's creation, a theatrical extravaganza dubbed 'showtime!'.

In the first city in Ohio to ban abortion, a former city councilor questions how this will impact local residents in need of life-changing healthcare.

Filmed over a year after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the film focuses on the civilians making great efforts to contribute to the resistance in every possible way. As the fighting continues for months, the mental impact of war becomes clearer, and lives are changed forever.

Andrew Hamilton grew up in the far north shore of Sydney. He had a good upbringing, but found himself convicted for selling a large commercial quantity of magic mushrooms, LSD and the supply of MDMA. A self proclaimed 'Mushroom King', Andrew sold shrooms for over a decade before getting arrested. After doing time in prison, Andrew has found a passion in stand up comedy and is travelling around Australia making people laugh. The power of laughter which he experienced in a maximum security prison was the light-bulb moment that took Andrew from the cell to the stages.

The Oktoberfest captivates around 6 million visitors every year. But what makes the world’s largest folk festival so special? This documentary takes a look behind the scenes of the spectacle and follows various people who are responsible for its smooth running and lively atmosphere. Whether they’re families of carnival operators, Oktoberfest servers, or paramedics—they all offer personal insights into their daily lives and explain what makes the magic of the Wiesn so special.

This Documentary is about Adam Palmer, a Purple Heart Veteran who found purpose through God. He went his whole life searching for something greater. From football to the the military, he didn't satisfy his drive for purpose. After being severely injured in Iraq, he had an intervention with God which finally brought him peace.

From laws on propaganda and extremism to forced "treatment for orientation"! Are we truly at this point in history? This is a collection of dramatic stories from people who have endured so-called conversion therapy. Pilgrimages to Iran, psychiatric hospitals, soul-saving Orthodox monasteries, prisons in the Caucasus, and even sessions of exorcising a jinn... The imagination of those convinced that sexual orientation can be "corrected" knows no bounds. But what are the consequences of this conviction, and how effective is corrective medicine?

When Mary, a fiercely independent woman with vision impairment, has a mishap, a friendly stranger steps in to help. The two bond – but Mary notices all isn’t quite as it seems.

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past”, is announced in white letters, emulating the VHS format and quoting a famous line by American writer William Faulkner on the screen before the appearance of the protagonist in an everyday situation. This quote is the introduction and declaration of principles of What remains in me, director Tamara Mesri’s debut feature film. Through several meetings, reunions and the meticulous display of archival material (including photographs and family documents), the film recreates the story of Luba Alkon de Biegún, the filmmaker’s grandmother and an Holocaust survivor.

A documentary about Yone Lindgren who has been fighting since the beginning of the 1970s (the most violent phase of the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship) for what could be a simple dream, but with a dimension of utopia for LGBTQIA+ people: the right to come and go, ride holding hands, being who you are, with pride and without fear. Yone is a mother and grandmother. She is a political activist who believes in the power of affection. She lost a son, murdered by homophobia, and continues to fight. She maintains an active channel on Facebook and YouTube, supporting and welcoming lesbians and the LGBTQIA+ population who still suffer from violence and oppression in the country.

Mayan culture still thrives among the Tzotzil people of San Andrés Larrainzar, a town in southeastern Mexico. Each inhabitant shares responsibility for the collective well-being but only a few are called upon to serve the gods—often in a dream.